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by DougJ|  April 27, 20122:35 pm| 169 Comments

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  1. 1.

    r€nato

    April 27, 2012 at 2:37 pm

    Bacon Day is the Saturday before Labor Day.

    (Sept. 1 this year)

  2. 2.

    BGinCHI

    April 27, 2012 at 2:38 pm

    The rain in Spain falls mostly on the unemployed.

  3. 3.

    Ed Drone

    April 27, 2012 at 2:38 pm

    Something you don’t know? Hmmmm… to do that, I have to learn what you DO know, and that’ll take too long.

    How about: The plural of “spouse” is “spice”? Is that the kind of factoid you’re looking for?

    I don’t have any of those. Sorry.

    Ed

  4. 4.

    amk

    April 27, 2012 at 2:38 pm

    Obama did not kill osama. Happy?

  5. 5.

    r€nato

    April 27, 2012 at 2:39 pm

    Please tell me amk is a troll or snarking, I don’t wish to embarrass myself by taking it seriously when I shouldn’t.

  6. 6.

    joel hanes

    April 27, 2012 at 2:40 pm

    Kim Jong-Il once kidnapped a prominent South Korean actress and her film director husband, hoping to kick-start the North Korean movie industry. The result: a monster movie in which a lizard-shaped rice ball turns into a giant beast that eats iron. He brings peace to a village but then eats the heroine and dies. The end. — Bob Harris

  7. 7.

    amk

    April 27, 2012 at 2:41 pm

    @r€nato: whatdayathink ? :)

  8. 8.

    Gin & Tonic

    April 27, 2012 at 2:41 pm

    Reuters tells me the FDA has approved yet another med1cation for [email protected] improvement. I wouldn’t dare mention the name, in case FYWP filters are up to date.

  9. 9.

    The Other Chuck

    April 27, 2012 at 2:42 pm

    @joel hanes: Pulgusari! Learned about that one from a game on my XBox (it eats equipped items after the battle and grows stronger)

  10. 10.

    amk

    April 27, 2012 at 2:42 pm

    Another one – mittbot is actually a human being.

  11. 11.

    Gin & Tonic

    April 27, 2012 at 2:42 pm

    @amk: Of course he didn’t. He had people do it for him, like any good capo.

  12. 12.

    r€nato

    April 27, 2012 at 2:43 pm

    @Gin & Tonic: Still waiting for Catholic bishops and Republican legislators to propose laws that allow employers to refuse to pay for boner pills on the grounds of religious liberty and moral conscience.

  13. 13.

    Mino

    April 27, 2012 at 2:43 pm

    Does anybody think the crash voter registration effort in Arizona has anything to do with a certain airport interaction? Ha, ha. I dearly hope he can pull it off.

  14. 14.

    Anoniminous

    April 27, 2012 at 2:43 pm

    Computer programs modeling fractal dimensions are more fun when you use Para-consistent Logic(s.)

  15. 15.

    Svensker

    April 27, 2012 at 2:44 pm

    Is “Doug-Jarvus Green-Ellis” now only a pleasant memory? Or will he reappear when the Bengals are playing?

    This is important information to have.

  16. 16.

    amk

    April 27, 2012 at 2:44 pm

    republicans lurv welfare. (I’ll let that one stew).

  17. 17.

    Culture of Truth

    April 27, 2012 at 2:45 pm

    Tell me something I don’t know.

    Lehman Brothers gave out almost $700 million to 50 employees in the months before its epic collapse in 2008.

    Surprisingly, they were not in senior management, and were not investment bankers or traders. Some employees were more highly paid than CEO Dick Fuld.

  18. 18.

    trollhattan

    April 27, 2012 at 2:45 pm

    @r€nato:

    Did somebody say, “bacon”?

    http://rogue.com/beers/voodoo-bacon-maple.php

  19. 19.

    Culture of Truth

    April 27, 2012 at 2:48 pm

    Perhaps you knew that. but this?

    The man who holds the Guinness World Record for living the longest with a bullet in his head has died at age 103. His older brother accidentally shot him in 1917.

  20. 20.

    Brachiator

    April 27, 2012 at 2:48 pm

    Space Shuttle. New York City.

    Fantabulous.

  21. 21.

    r€nato

    April 27, 2012 at 2:48 pm

    Rogue is an awesome brewer.

  22. 22.

    amk

    April 27, 2012 at 2:50 pm

    @Culture of Truth: darth’s grampa ?

  23. 23.

    Gin & Tonic

    April 27, 2012 at 2:51 pm

    @Culture of Truth: So, who were they? Programmers?

  24. 24.

    scav

    April 27, 2012 at 2:51 pm

    A Kotrc is a Brain Fungus aka Sparassis crispa

  25. 25.

    Brachiator

    April 27, 2012 at 2:51 pm

    @r€nato:

    Bacon Day is the Saturday before Labor Day.

    And fittingly,

    If You Order 1050 Slices Of Bacon, Burger King Will Comply

  26. 26.

    rlrr

    April 27, 2012 at 2:52 pm

    @amk:

    Quit making shit up.

  27. 27.

    Roger Moore

    April 27, 2012 at 2:52 pm

    Tell me something I don’t know.

    In addition to the standard 20 amino acids, some organisms code for selenocysteine and pyrrolysine directly rather than producing them by post-translational modification.

  28. 28.

    accident queen

    April 27, 2012 at 2:53 pm

    well, they are pulling piles of mutant shrimp, crabs and fish with lesions all over them out of the Gulf but apparently no big deal to the gov’t or any commenters here who would rather fight about dressage horses. you’ve got your priorities straight!

  29. 29.

    daverave

    April 27, 2012 at 2:53 pm

    @r€nato:

    …and Lagunitas is going nation-wide with sales in all 50 states with the opening of their brewery in Chicago. IPA for all!!!1!

  30. 30.

    Horrendo Slapp (formerly Jimperson Zibb, Duncan Dönitz, Otto Graf von Pfmidtnöchtler-Pízsmőgy, Mumphrey, et al.)

    April 27, 2012 at 2:53 pm

    Tulip poplars aren’t really poplars at all. They’re in the magnolia family.

  31. 31.

    Ole Phat Stu

    April 27, 2012 at 2:54 pm

    sin(60°)=e/pi ;-)

  32. 32.

    Litlebritdifrnt

    April 27, 2012 at 2:54 pm

    Today is Save the Frogs Day

    Clicky on my name for a post about my froggies.

  33. 33.

    sandy

    April 27, 2012 at 2:54 pm

    recommended spark plug for a 1971 Model 70 John Deere lawn tractor is the Champion J-8. I’m sure you know the recommended gap so I won’t mention it.

  34. 34.

    amk

    April 27, 2012 at 2:54 pm

    @rlrr: Well, I once saw him eat 7/11 cookies. Gotta be human.

  35. 35.

    Davis X. Machina

    April 27, 2012 at 2:54 pm

    @Culture of Truth: In 1917, of all times, he couldn’t find someone to shoot him, he had to go bother his brother?

  36. 36.

    r€nato

    April 27, 2012 at 2:55 pm

    @daverave: I actually don’t care for IPA… but Lagunitas is excellent as well.

  37. 37.

    Schlemizel

    April 27, 2012 at 2:55 pm

    @Gin & Tonic:
    I love the fact that if you put [email protected] middle of words this stupid thing assumes it MUST be an email address 8-{D

    I may [email protected] [email protected] now

  38. 38.

    accident queen

    April 27, 2012 at 2:55 pm

    @amk:

    Another one – mittbot is actually a human being.

    what proof do you have? i demand the original birth certificate.

  39. 39.

    amk

    April 27, 2012 at 2:57 pm

    Fukushima shit did not happen.

  40. 40.

    Cato

    April 27, 2012 at 2:57 pm

    So why is Obambi using a historic event that unified our nation as a cheap campaign gimmick?

    Is this insulting to the men and women of our military? Especially since Obabmi said he didn’t believe he should use that event to “spike the football”, but that’s exactly what he’s doing.

    Cheap, tawdry, and unbecoming of a President.

  41. 41.

    rlrr

    April 27, 2012 at 2:58 pm

    @amk:

    Next you’ll say you saw him eating at an Applebee’s salad bar…

  42. 42.

    Brachiator

    April 27, 2012 at 2:58 pm

    Tell me something I don’t know

    The early word on the Avengers movie, which has opened overseas, is that it is Big Fun.

  43. 43.

    Yutsano

    April 27, 2012 at 2:58 pm

    @Litlebritdifrnt: It was National Pengie Day two days ago. I got to hold a stuffed one at work. It was cool. :)

  44. 44.

    Corbin Dallas Multipass

    April 27, 2012 at 2:59 pm

    http://atsignsarenttheonlywaytoconfuseitmaybe ?

    It’s a feature not a bug.

  45. 45.

    BGinCHI

    April 27, 2012 at 2:59 pm

    @daverave: Good news, since it’s been running out constantly around here. I want some more of that brown sugar stuff.

  46. 46.

    Horrendo Slapp (formerly Jimperson Zibb, Duncan Dönitz, Otto Graf von Pfmidtnöchtler-Pízsmőgy, Mumphrey, et al.)

    April 27, 2012 at 2:59 pm

    @r€nato:

    I mŷself hæv ñoþiñg against ðe International Phonetiç Alphaбet.

  47. 47.

    amk

    April 27, 2012 at 3:01 pm

    @Cato: mission accomplished banner, you turd.

  48. 48.

    BGinCHI

    April 27, 2012 at 3:01 pm

    @Cato: VICTORY!

  49. 49.

    curiousleo

    April 27, 2012 at 3:01 pm

    NC can defeat that stupid anti-gay amendment. But only if everyone helps out. Call everyone you know in NC until they’ve voted against it.

    Donate to get ads on tv and it will be matched

  50. 50.

    Schlemizel

    April 27, 2012 at 3:01 pm

    As for things you don’t know – it takes about 14 inches of catheter to reach past the average mans prostate from the outside world.

  51. 51.

    Belafon (formerly anonevent)

    April 27, 2012 at 3:02 pm

    @Cato: Because he ordered the hit. He gets credit for it, and gets to use it.

  52. 52.

    amk

    April 27, 2012 at 3:02 pm

    @rlrr: that would make him kenyan, muslin, manchurian, rev. wright follower – can’t have that.

  53. 53.

    rlrr

    April 27, 2012 at 3:02 pm

    @amk:

    Also the entire 2004 Republican convention…

  54. 54.

    cathyx

    April 27, 2012 at 3:03 pm

    I love circus peanuts, and they don’t taste like peanuts at all.

  55. 55.

    Svensker

    April 27, 2012 at 3:03 pm

    @Cato:

    I didn’t know there was a President Obambi, but I’m sorry to hear about his bad behavior. I’m sure our current president is much smoother.

  56. 56.

    jl

    April 27, 2012 at 3:03 pm

    @Cato: No, that is Jeopardy. You are supposed to provide a statement for this game.

    As in

    I found out last night that the action can be a saddle point. I did not know that.

  57. 57.

    jeffreyw

    April 27, 2012 at 3:04 pm

    Mmm… bacon

  58. 58.

    amk

    April 27, 2012 at 3:04 pm

    @Cato: Also. Too. I love the way that kenyan is yanking your chains.

  59. 59.

    Belafon (formerly anonevent)

    April 27, 2012 at 3:04 pm

    Interesting fact about AEDs: in the 30 years before they were first tested at Chicago’s O’Hare airport, not a single person had survived ventrical defibrilation. The first year they tested it, the nine people who suffered a heart attack due to ventrical defibrilation survived, 6 of whom were cared for by people who had never seen an AED before.

  60. 60.

    Tone In DC

    April 27, 2012 at 3:04 pm

    The NSA (and other agencies) are surveillin’ and dissemblin’ at a rapid pace.

    http://www.democracynow.org/2012/4/23/more_secrets_on_growing_state_surveillance

    Also, too.

  61. 61.

    bemused

    April 27, 2012 at 3:04 pm

    @Cato:

    Yawn.

  62. 62.

    Schlemizel

    April 27, 2012 at 3:04 pm

    @Cato:
    Yeah instead he should have dressed up in a pretend flight suit (remember to stuff an extra pair of socks in the crotch) and pretend to land on an aircraft carrier that has been left circling in the ocean waiting for him to show up and then give a speech in front of a banner proclaiming a lie – then blame the Navy for his administration hanging the lie.

    THAT would be Presidential!

  63. 63.

    RossinDetroit

    April 27, 2012 at 3:04 pm

    You probably did not know that photons from the center of the galaxy that are hypothesized to be from annihilations of dark matter particles have the same (mass)energy as the Standard Model Higgs Boson is thought to have. Around 125 – 130Gev.
    Yup.
    And that’s not all. Dark Matter interacts with ordinary matter only through Gravity. And the Higgs Boson is thought to be the particle responsible for the field that imparts matter with Mass.
    See where I’m going here? I know you do.

  64. 64.

    Anoniminous

    April 27, 2012 at 3:05 pm

    Acetylcholine is used as a neurotransmitter in both the peripheral and central nervous system which is why some people – as evidenced in this thread – confuse the proper biological function of their asshole with their brain’s higher cognitive function(s.)

  65. 65.

    jeffreyw

    April 27, 2012 at 3:05 pm

    @sandy: .30″ or so

  66. 66.

    Cato

    April 27, 2012 at 3:05 pm

    @Svensker:

    He sure is our “coolest” President, but after four years of being led the biggest celebrity in the world, isn’t it time for someone who takes this job seriously and can get the job done instead of singing and dancing?

  67. 67.

    Cato

    April 27, 2012 at 3:06 pm

    @Schlemizel:

    Keep blaming Bush. The rest of the country has moved on.

  68. 68.

    Litlebritdifrnt

    April 27, 2012 at 3:06 pm

    @Yutsano:

    I missed that one!

  69. 69.

    Culture of Truth

    April 27, 2012 at 3:07 pm

    @Gin & Tonic: Equity analysts. $50 million.

  70. 70.

    rlrr

    April 27, 2012 at 3:07 pm

    @Shit for Brains:

    [reading comprehension FAIL]

  71. 71.

    joel hanes

    April 27, 2012 at 3:08 pm

    The scientific name of the American Robin is
    Turdus migratorius

  72. 72.

    Clime Acts

    April 27, 2012 at 3:08 pm

    Here’s something you don’t know: My fabulous portrait of President Obama is available for purchase HERE.

    From now until the election 20% of all my art sales will go to the Obama campaign, documentation provided.

    Check out the PREZ.

    Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1103643503

    Web site: http://timotte.com/

  73. 73.

    Schlemizel

    April 27, 2012 at 3:09 pm

    @Cato:
    I believe the Bin Laden job got done – something your flight suited manboyikin couldn’t do in 7 years

  74. 74.

    Brachiator

    April 27, 2012 at 3:09 pm

    The Movies that Changed Your Life

    When I was about nineteen or twenty, I saw an important critic on a talk show — I have no idea who this guy was — but something he said I’ve remembered ever since. He said, “Great art by definition changes your life. If you see Chaplin’s CITY LIGHTS, you’re a different person than before you saw it. It won’t necessarily make a huge change, but you’ll be changed. You’ll always have it with you.”
    __
    I think this is true. But I also think that OK, pretty good, good and very good has the CAPACITY to change us, if we happen to catch it at precisely the time it’s most likely to speak to us. That’s why the other day I asked you to tell me some of the movies that changed your life. Here they are in the above gallery, along with some of mine.
    __
    And keep them coming. Sky’s the limit.

    Oh, yeah, for me one of these films would be Marcel Carne’s Children of Paradise (Les Enfants du Paradis)

    And Hiroshi Ignaki’s Samurai Trilogy. Changed everything that I thought movies could be, and made me see color photography in film as an art in itself, not mere decoration.

  75. 75.

    Tone In DC

    April 27, 2012 at 3:09 pm

    Didn’t J. Cole ban Derf/wingnut-in-training/this bag of hammers recently? Time for a repeat performance, maybe?

  76. 76.

    RossinDetroit

    April 27, 2012 at 3:09 pm

    @sandy:

    The recommended spark plug for the Kawasaki FH541V 17HP V-twin engine is Champion RCJ8Y, with gap of 0.030″.
    Now I need to go debug a propane floor polishing machine.

  77. 77.

    Hill Dweller

    April 27, 2012 at 3:09 pm

    @Cato: The celebrity criticism worked wonders in ’08. Keep f’n that chicken.

    As for the Bin Laden killing, you shameless assholes were out there immediately trying to give Bush credit for it.

  78. 78.

    amk

    April 27, 2012 at 3:09 pm

    @Cato: didn’t mittbot try his hand in singing publicly and utterly failed in that ? As I said, I so lurv that kenyan is yanking your racist chains that you pant like a rabid dog.

  79. 79.

    gbear

    April 27, 2012 at 3:10 pm

    Tell me something I don’t know.

    AutoCAD sucks.

  80. 80.

    amk

    April 27, 2012 at 3:11 pm

    @Tone In DC: cole couldn’t ban for shit.

  81. 81.

    RossinDetroit

    April 27, 2012 at 3:11 pm

    @joel hanes:

    The scientific name of the American Robin is
    Turdus migratorius

    And it’s a thrush, unrelated to the English Robin. Superficial resemblance.

  82. 82.

    Tone In DC

    April 27, 2012 at 3:11 pm

    @amk:

    As I said, I so lurv that kenyan is yanking your racist chains that you pant like a rabid dog.

    Dude, there is NO need to insult rabid dogs like that.

  83. 83.

    rlrr

    April 27, 2012 at 3:11 pm

    @gbear:

    Most commercial software sucks.

  84. 84.

    BGinCHI

    April 27, 2012 at 3:11 pm

    @Cato: In other words, it’s nice to have a brother who can sing and dance, but let’s get a serious white guy back in there, umkay?

    You could fuck up a one-car funeral.

  85. 85.

    Clime Acts

    April 27, 2012 at 3:11 pm

    Cato is a spoof.

  86. 86.

    Cato

    April 27, 2012 at 3:12 pm

    @Schlemizel:

    Bin Laden is dead not just because of Obama, but because of the efforts of and intelligence gathering techniques developed under President Bush, and most of all because the Navy SEALS kick ass.

  87. 87.

    SatanicPanic

    April 27, 2012 at 3:12 pm

    @Brachiator: I can’t wait for that one. Super excited

  88. 88.

    Schlemizel

    April 27, 2012 at 3:12 pm

    @Cato:
    Who blamed him? I merely asked you to compare and contrast. Next try to imagine that other empty headed son of wealth in the White House with his strong convictions to be whatever everyone wants him to be.

    The sad fact (for people like you) is that the choice this fall will be between a guy who earned his way in life & has made progress in the White House or a guy born on third base & stole home from working people.

  89. 89.

    Tone In DC

    April 27, 2012 at 3:12 pm

    @amk:

    Maybe, maybe not.
    M_C/Samara is no longer gracing us with her disjointed rejoinders.

  90. 90.

    amk

    April 27, 2012 at 3:12 pm

    @rlrr: LOL. I see what you did there. Nice. The troll will never get it.

  91. 91.

    Cato

    April 27, 2012 at 3:13 pm

    @BGinCHI:

    You’re saying Obama hasn’t sung and danced? Look at the video.

    Obama: Tap dancing while the economy burns.

  92. 92.

    Culture of Truth

    April 27, 2012 at 3:14 pm

    Men will drive 100 MPH to have sex

    http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/04/27/11429281-i-did-111-mph-to-go-have-sex-man-tells-cops?lite

    Wait, you probably knew that.

  93. 93.

    PeakVT

    April 27, 2012 at 3:14 pm

    @gbear: Does it still suck? Last version I used was 12. Sketchup is a joy to use in comparison (once you realize you need to group things, otherwise the model is a big sticky mess).

  94. 94.

    Mino

    April 27, 2012 at 3:14 pm

    @RossinDetroit: A propane floor polishing machine?

  95. 95.

    joel hanes

    April 27, 2012 at 3:14 pm

    @cathyx:

    Circus Peanuts

    Really? Those marshmallow things?

    I always wondered who bought them.

  96. 96.

    rlrr

    April 27, 2012 at 3:14 pm

    @Shit for Brains:

    Crapo hasn’t noticed the economy is somewhat better now than it was in early 2009…

  97. 97.

    Calouste

    April 27, 2012 at 3:15 pm

    @joel hanes:

    It must be related to Cato then. It’s scientific name is Turdus maximus.

  98. 98.

    amk

    April 27, 2012 at 3:15 pm

    @Tone In DC: Point taken. Even rabid dogs are way better than the current crop of thugs.

  99. 99.

    Tone In DC

    April 27, 2012 at 3:15 pm

    Bush attempts to dance, Americans cringe…

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knhErtMjC8k

  100. 100.

    Cato

    April 27, 2012 at 3:15 pm

    @rlrr:

    I see someone didn’t notice the much lower than expected growth this quarter.

    We’ve had enough “song and dance” from the current resident of the White House–time for real and serious leadership on the economy.

  101. 101.

    Cheap Jim

    April 27, 2012 at 3:16 pm

    I don’t know what you don’t know.

  102. 102.

    Horrendo Slapp (formerly Jimperson Zibb, Duncan Dönitz, Otto Graf von Pfmidtnöchtler-Pízsmőgy, Mumphrey, et al.)

    April 27, 2012 at 3:16 pm

    @gbear:

    You know who else sucks? AutoCATO.

  103. 103.

    rlrr

    April 27, 2012 at 3:16 pm

    @Mino:

    Hank Hill approves!

  104. 104.

    Chyron HR

    April 27, 2012 at 3:17 pm

    @Cato:

    Tap Dancing War on Moms Jerimiah Wright Secret Service Prostitutes #OIW VICTORY!!

    You know, if any of these alleged controversies were actually sticking to Obama, the GOP wouldn’t have to keep switching to a different one every single day. Just saying.

  105. 105.

    Tone In DC

    April 27, 2012 at 3:17 pm

    Bush dances, Americans cringe.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knhErtMjC8k

  106. 106.

    amk

    April 27, 2012 at 3:17 pm

    @Horrendo Slapp (formerly Jimperson Zibb, Duncan Dönitz, Otto Graf von Pfmidtnöchtler-Pízsmőgy, Mumphrey, et al.): For the win.

  107. 107.

    rlrr

    April 27, 2012 at 3:19 pm

    @Shit for Brains:

    Better than the negative growth we experienced at the end of the last Administration.

  108. 108.

    amk

    April 27, 2012 at 3:19 pm

    @Chyron HR: yup. That the kenyan has saint raygun teflony is what drives the racists like cato nuts.

  109. 109.

    Tractarian

    April 27, 2012 at 3:19 pm

    Andrew Sullivan calls the GOP a “radical fundamentalist and anti-government religious movement, dedicated to a core rejection of almost everything modernity brings but money.”

    Say what you will about Andrew; that’s a pretty spot-on description.

  110. 110.

    RossinDetroit

    April 27, 2012 at 3:20 pm

    A propane floor polishing machine?

    Like so: http://www.masterwholesale.com/mwistore/display.php?RecordID=1164927071

    Gotta go make with the wrenches…

  111. 111.

    rlrr

    April 27, 2012 at 3:20 pm

    @Chyron HR:

    I’m betting the Service Service shenanigans have been going on for a long time…

  112. 112.

    Cheap Jim

    April 27, 2012 at 3:21 pm

    @Clime Acts: As are you, right?

  113. 113.

    rlrr

    April 27, 2012 at 3:22 pm

    @Tractarian:

    Even a blind squirrel finds a nut sometimes.

  114. 114.

    Mino

    April 27, 2012 at 3:23 pm

    @Tractarian: Uh, Kos got there first.

  115. 115.

    amk

    April 27, 2012 at 3:24 pm

    hey shithead – your turd blossom calls it for that kenyan muslin. Read it and hang yourself.

  116. 116.

    Rosalita

    April 27, 2012 at 3:25 pm

    @Schlemizel:

    Yeah instead he should have dressed up in a pretend flight suit (remember to stuff an extra pair of socks in the crotch) and pretend to land on an aircraft carrier that has been left circling in the ocean waiting for him to show up and then give a speech in front of a banner proclaiming a lie – then blame the Navy for his administration hanging the lie.

    yeah we’ll never forget Bush’s nuts trussed up like that…yeesh. some local here had a statue made up of that and out it out in the garden in front of his auto parts shop.

  117. 117.

    trollhattan

    April 27, 2012 at 3:25 pm

    @Schlemizel:

    Not only did he not “get ‘er done” he told us it wasn’t important, and dismantled the Bin Laden unit.

    Yeah, miss that dude.

    (Still chuckling at Biden’s reformulation of the GM/Bin Laden quip yesterday.)

  118. 118.

    Hill Dweller

    April 27, 2012 at 3:26 pm

    @Cato: What is the Republicans’ solution? More austerity? Tax cuts for the wealthy?

    The Republican caucus was told by their own economists last year that budget cuts would slow growth, but the morons went right ahead and threatened to default on our debt(which also temporarily brought credit flow to a halt) in order to get them.

    Your party is intellectually and morally bankrupt. You’ve got nothing substantive to offer, so you resort to stoking resentment and fear.

  119. 119.

    amk

    April 27, 2012 at 3:26 pm

    @Mino: but kos=dfh. Don’t count. When your own tribe calls you a sickfuck, it sticks.

  120. 120.

    Cato

    April 27, 2012 at 3:27 pm

    @trollhattan:

    Why not have let GM go bankrupt? No one bailed out airlines, steel companies and others when they hit the rocks. The government set a very dangerous precedent. Not only did they bail out a private entity using public money, they ignored rule-of-law in doing it (just ask the bondholders who somehow ended up behind the UAW when the spoils were divvied).

    Your post implies a belief that the end (saving GM) justifies the means (an outside-the-law backruptcy process). Wow… when we are governed by whim instead of law we’re on a very slippery slope indeed.

    The government has recouped just over $22 billion of an almost $50 billion loan to GM. GM posted a profit last year of $7.6 billion.

    The government shouldn’t be in the business of picking winners and losers in the economy.

  121. 121.

    Tone In DC

    April 27, 2012 at 3:28 pm

    Bush should not dance…

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knhErtMjC8k

  122. 122.

    rlrr

    April 27, 2012 at 3:28 pm

    @amk:

    The canned ham is marshaling his resources for the downstream elections and the 2016 Presidential run…

  123. 123.

    priscianusjr

    April 27, 2012 at 3:28 pm

    There are the known knowns; the unknown knowns; the known unknowns; and the unknown unknowns. No one has to tell you what you already know you know; you didn’t ask us to tell you the knowns that you don’t know (whatever that would mean); and for the known unknowns, the logical thing would be for you to ask specific questions, which you didn’t. That leaves only the mystery of the unknown unknowns.
    But if you don’t know what you don’t know, how would I? I mean, I might very well know it, but I wouldn’t know that you don’t, and neither would you. So, reluctantly, I must refuse your request.

  124. 124.

    gbear

    April 27, 2012 at 3:28 pm

    @Horrendo Slapp (formerly Jimperson Zibb, Duncan Dönitz, Otto Graf von Pfmidtnöchtler-Pízsmőgy, Mumphrey, et al.): Yes.

  125. 125.

    Elias

    April 27, 2012 at 3:29 pm

    @daverave: Wait, what do you mean Lagunitas is opening a brewery in Chicago and going nationwide? Am I still gonna be able to get my Undercover Investigation Shutdown Ale from their little shop in Petaluma or not? Cause I don’t want a west coast beer that’s being made in Chicago and then shipped back to where it originally came from.

  126. 126.

    Corner Stone

    April 27, 2012 at 3:30 pm

    You may not want to know this, but reading recent actions by the unbelievably bad D Senator from MO, just reinforces my take that the R’s will retake the Senate.

    And as a condom to idiots here, no, that does not mean I endorse that outcome. But that is the outcome that will happen.

  127. 127.

    BGinCHI

    April 27, 2012 at 3:30 pm

    @Cato: VICTORY!

  128. 128.

    PeakVT

    April 27, 2012 at 3:30 pm

    @Mino: Propane gives you a (relatively) clean-burning internal combustion engine.

  129. 129.

    policomic

    April 27, 2012 at 3:31 pm

    Poltergeists make up the principle type of spontaneous material manifestation.

  130. 130.

    rlrr

    April 27, 2012 at 3:32 pm

    @PeakVT:

    But not butane. Butane is the bastard gas.

  131. 131.

    trollhattan

    April 27, 2012 at 3:32 pm

    @Cato:

    Money well spent. We’ll recoup every penny and have saved a million or more jobs as a direct consequence, both at the two companies and related suppliers and other industries. Sure came in handy after the Japan quake and tsunami paralyzed their auto companies, now didn’t it?

    Recession vs. depression–compare and contrast.

  132. 132.

    Corner Stone

    April 27, 2012 at 3:33 pm

    @rlrr:

    @Shit for Brains

    Damn you. I clicked on this link to determine it was not, in fact, referencing amk.
    Which I would have put money on given the moniker.

  133. 133.

    Mino

    April 27, 2012 at 3:35 pm

    @Corner Stone: Her opponent is pretty horribly bad too.

  134. 134.

    Tractarian

    April 27, 2012 at 3:35 pm

    @Cato:

    Why not have let GM go bankrupt? No one bailed out airlines, steel companies and others when they hit the rocks.

    Bwahahahaha! Good one.

  135. 135.

    Trinity

    April 27, 2012 at 3:35 pm

    I am not well.

  136. 136.

    Mino

    April 27, 2012 at 3:36 pm

    @PeakVT: But, but, wood dust, solvent fumes. Boom. Boom.

  137. 137.

    Corner Stone

    April 27, 2012 at 3:36 pm

    I feel certain this will end well.
    “Stunned Home Buyers Find the Bidding Wars Are Back”
    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304723304577366294046658820.html?mod=WSJ_hp_mostpop_read

  138. 138.

    rlrr

    April 27, 2012 at 3:37 pm

    @Mino:

    Sadly, enough Missourians could be conned into putting that idiot Todd Akin into the Senate…

  139. 139.

    Corner Stone

    April 27, 2012 at 3:37 pm

    @Mino: Obviously. But she’s biting off half a loaf. And her opponent owns the whole loaf.
    She’s done.

  140. 140.

    Chyron HR

    April 27, 2012 at 3:39 pm

    @Tractarian:

    Yeah, but half that list is from the Bush administration, which doesn’t count.

  141. 141.

    rlrr

    April 27, 2012 at 3:40 pm

    @Chyron HR:

    2001-2009 never happened…

  142. 142.

    Mino

    April 27, 2012 at 3:41 pm

    @Tractarian: I remembered the airlines after 9/11.

    Does it count as a bailout if federal guns break steel mill strikes? That has happened several times.

  143. 143.

    amk

    April 27, 2012 at 3:43 pm

    @rlrr: now dougj can die in peace.

  144. 144.

    Clime Acts

    April 27, 2012 at 3:44 pm

    @Cheap Jim:

    In an existential sense, or as a BJ commenter?

  145. 145.

    Jacquie

    April 27, 2012 at 3:49 pm

    I have four extra vertebrae in my neck that were discovered when I had open MRIs after a car accident. True story.

  146. 146.

    PeakVT

    April 27, 2012 at 3:49 pm

    @Mino: Wutsdaprawblem? Don’t run one in a sawmill or spray booth. Shouldn’t be hard.

  147. 147.

    priscianusjr

    April 27, 2012 at 3:51 pm

    @Cato:

    Your post implies a belief that the end (saving GM) justifies the means (an outside-the-law backruptcy process).

    Well! Thanks for sharing.
    Your comment is a fine example of question-begging (petitio principii). It is normal to believe that the end justifies the means. If you get good results, you must have been doing something right. “Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?” (Matthew 7:16).
    The only time the statement “the end justifies the means” would have the meaning you want here, is when the means are morally bad. But that is the very point at issue — you believe in a philosophy that says these means are a priori bad. DougJ and most of us do not believe that. I will go further, you believe in a philosophy that says these means must have bad consequences and you will search and search until you find them, because you have to rationalize your philosophy. Meanwhile most of us believe this is not high-order metaphysics or theology, it’s just practical governance for the common good, and there are means available to solve problems. If we believed those means were morally wrong, we would not use them either. But we believe that they are not only unobjectionable, but praiseworthy. So you can vote for Romney and we’ll vote for Obama.

  148. 148.

    Culture of Truth

    April 27, 2012 at 3:54 pm

    @Jacquie: I’ve heard of conducting discovering after an accident but that takes the cake.

  149. 149.

    trollhattan

    April 27, 2012 at 3:57 pm

    @Jacquie:

    Wow, any giraffes in your ancestry that you’re aware of? What the heck, if anything, are you supposed to do differently, armed with this bit of information?

  150. 150.

    Cris (without an H)

    April 27, 2012 at 3:58 pm

    The president has a big stick. Joe Biden has seen it. (pix plz)

  151. 151.

    amk

    April 27, 2012 at 3:58 pm

    sam stein tweet

    Romney: “FIRED UP! READY TO Gzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz”

  152. 152.

    trollhattan

    April 27, 2012 at 4:01 pm

    @Brachiator:

    Yeah! Here’s a slide show of today’s NYC Shuttle overflight.

    http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/04/space-shuttle-enterprise-pictures-over-nyc.html

  153. 153.

    bemused

    April 27, 2012 at 4:05 pm

    @Jacquie:

    Interesting. Is having four extra vertebrae an advantage, disadvantage or no different from having the usual number?

    @priscianusjr:

    I like your style of sharing.

  154. 154.

    trollhattan

    April 27, 2012 at 4:10 pm

    Cripes, more trouble brewing at Foxconn.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/27/foxconn-workers-protest_n_1458538.html

  155. 155.

    Horrendo Slapp (formerly Jimperson Zibb, Duncan Dönitz, Otto Graf von Pfmidtnöchtler-Pízsmőgy, Mumphrey, et al.)

    April 27, 2012 at 4:17 pm

    @trollhattan:

    Not really “armed”. More like “necked”.

  156. 156.

    ornery_curmudgeon

    April 27, 2012 at 4:30 pm

    @accident queen:
    well, they are pulling piles of mutant shrimp, crabs and fish with lesions all over them out of the Gulf but apparently no big deal to the gov’t or any commenters here who would rather fight about dressage horses. you’ve got your priorities straight!

    That is because something can be done about BJuice attacking dressage, and there’s f-all that can be done about the Gulf Oil spill at this point.

    I join in crying over spilled oil, but stopping a stupid meme has value too. Dressage seeks harmony with nature, btw, so it might be more relevant than you think.

  157. 157.

    Brachiator

    April 27, 2012 at 4:31 pm

    Afternoon of a faun

    Photographer James Chang captured some delightful video of a newborn fawn resting on the doorstep of his parents’ California home.
    __
    At first, Chang was worried that the fawn was injured and called 9-1-1. He was told not to worry and to simply give the baby deer some space in case its mother was nearby.
    __
    “I freaked out, because I thought it was hurt and needed help,” Chang told KSBW News.
    __
    But sure enough, after a short amount of time, Change noticed the fawn’s mother eating grass across the street. Chang’s own mother told the Today Show the adult deer eventually walked across the street and gently “nudged” her fawn, who then slowly rose to its feet and began its “newborn wobbly walk” back into the wilderness.

  158. 158.

    trollhattan

    April 27, 2012 at 4:37 pm

    @Horrendo Slapp (formerly Jimperson Zibb, Duncan Dönitz, Otto Graf von Pfmidtnöchtler-Pízsmőgy, Mumphrey, et al.):

    Owwwwwtch! (and well played)

  159. 159.

    RossinDetroit

    April 27, 2012 at 4:40 pm

    Propane gives you a (relatively) clean-burning internal combustion engine.

    Victory is mine! It was just bad spark plugs. Probably the original ones, with 968 hours on the clock. Purrs like a kitten now. A dirty, hot, noisy 450lb kitten.

  160. 160.

    RossinDetroit

    April 27, 2012 at 4:42 pm

    @Jacquie:

    I have four extra vertebrae in my neck that were discovered when I had open MRIs after a car accident. True story.

    You’re part sloth. They’re the only vertebrates with a nonstandard neck vertebrae count. Giraffes have the same number as us.

  161. 161.

    Suffern ACE

    April 27, 2012 at 4:44 pm

    @RossinDetroit: Well that explains why it took her so long to get around to finding out that fact about herself.

  162. 162.

    Valdivia

    April 27, 2012 at 4:44 pm

    I wish I had my factoids up to date.
    Instead I will confess I can’t even read about all this bacon without wanting to eat some. Yum.

  163. 163.

    Corner Stone

    April 27, 2012 at 4:46 pm

    @RossinDetroit:

    A dirty, hot, noisy 450lb kitten.

    Sounds like my kind of woman. Rrraaawwwrrr.

  164. 164.

    Jacquie

    April 27, 2012 at 4:48 pm

    @trollhattan: I wish. Might make me taller.

    @bemused: I wouldn’t call it an advantage or disadvantage, per se, just makes me lean slightly to the left.

  165. 165.

    Amir Khalid

    April 27, 2012 at 5:03 pm

    @Clime Acts:
    Your “portraicatures” are, how shall I put this, interesting. Have you, by any chance, had them featured at Regretsy.com?

  166. 166.

    ruemara

    April 27, 2012 at 5:14 pm

    I get to broadcast the local county races. I’m actually looking forward to it. Say one thing about this job, I’ve learned so much more than I thought I would about the American political processes. And Labour Law.

  167. 167.

    daverave

    April 27, 2012 at 5:26 pm

    @Elias:

    no,no,no… they are building a second (actually duplicate from what I read) brewery in Chicago so they can supply the east coast, etc.

  168. 168.

    Origuy

    April 27, 2012 at 6:55 pm

    There is a ATM in Vatican City that displays instructions in Latin.

  169. 169.

    Beauzeaux

    April 28, 2012 at 1:00 pm

    The word “penguin” comes from the Welsh language.

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